Making the Match

The quality of your matches is crucial for the well-being of the participants, and the success of your program. This section will guide you through considerations to make during the matching process.

On this page you can:

Find documents to guide your policy on the matching process.

Read tips on how to navigate the mentor and mentee’s busy schedules, matching diverse participants, and how to keep your mentors engaged if they are waiting to be matched or re-matched.

Find a checklist covering how to make a successful match.

Policy

Matching

This example policy document comes from the suite of materials created for the VYMA Quality Assurance Project. All policies are based on a fictional youth mentoring program (‘GenYZ Mentoring’). Please treat these as a starting point for your policy and adapt and change them to reflect your own program’s requirements and design.

This document will describe how to ensure a match is successful, including alignment of skills and interests, career preferences, personalities/temperaments and geographical location.